Iran's Clerics See a Moral in Morsi's Fall

BEIRUT—The fall of Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi presents Iran with a new challenge: Establishing a relationship with an as-yet-undefined leadership while distancing itself from past efforts to court the Muslim Brotherhood.

Iran's high-level officials and state media haven't commented on the protests and military coup that drove Mr. Morsi and his Islamist party from power over the past week. But on Friday, the regime began to characterize the events in Egypt through the prism of Iran's resistance against Israel, the...